Transfer 3 Week 2

BONDI!

What a week! This was mine and Anziano LaRussa's fist week together

and we hit the ground running! It has been a busy and fun week with a

lot of stuff going on including Zone Conference! But as always we

start at the beginning! Tuesday we had a jam packed day planned when

we woke up and by10AM all but one of our appointments had cancelled

and our back up plans had fallen through! We were looking at a bust of

a day but we went to this park and found some kids, showed them how to

throw a football and then let them play with the Football while we

talked to their parents. It was really cool and we ended up getting

some cool investigators.

Wednesday we also had a pile of cancellations but all the other

missionaries were coming in from allover the Island and none of them

know the city. The zone leaders have the car so they hardly ever take

buses and my companion has no idea where he is in Cagliari at any

given moment... So that left me, fortunately I know the city really

well and I helped the missionaries navigate to the church for their

personal interviews with the Mission President and then back to our

apartment. It was a good day and we were all tired when we got home so

I count it as a success!

Thursday we had a great conference and it was so great to see

President and SIster Pickerd again. Our goal as a mission is to have

one baptism per companionship per transfer which is every six weeks so

President brought up all the pictures of the 15 baptisms that happened

in this last transfer and had everyone that had a part in the

conversion of each person raise their hand and tell the story. Out of

the 15 I think 9 of them had come in contact with one of the 16

missionaries here in Sardegna. It was really cool to see how much of a

team effort this is. We all work together and we never know how much

of an impact we have on people. We might be planting seeds for someone

else to harvest, we might be harvesting seeds that someone else has

planted.

This weekend was a blur, somehow we are at Monday already! We had a

really cool experience Friday and Saturday. I was talking to a less

active member on the phone and she told me her husband was in the

hospital and that's why she hadn't been in church because his health

has been up and down. Her husband is not a member but she has a

Granddaughter on a mission in Temple Square and another on a mission

in Madagascar. I felt an impression to ask her if her husband would

like a priesthood blessing. I ignored it because I didn't think he

would accept it but the prompting came again and so I asked her and

she said "Hold on let me ask him" I heard her ask him and I heard him

say yes. We went the next morning and gave him a blessing, it was a

very cool experience for me and for him. There is so much power in

priesthood blessings and I am so glad to have a knowledge of their

power and for the restoration of the priesthood.

We are preparing for our trip to Rome on Wednesday and we are so

excited! It will be a really neat experience to meet President Nelson,

President Hallstom and Bishop Causse and to hear their wisdom! The

conference is scheduled to be only two hours long so it will be a

spiritual whirlwind for sure! I cant wait to tell you all about it!

Have a great week and I want to invite you all to think about how we

can receive strength through the Savior's atonement. This life is not

easy and sometimes it can be down right difficult but as Elder Nelson

said this past conference this life is about finding joy. I know if we

look to the savior's atonement we will find the joy that is meant for

us in this life. your Italian word for this week is espiazione high is

Atonement. Its a good missionary word!

Keep on keeping no and loving this beautiful life!

Anziano Jacob Bellucci